Installation Profiles - Repeatable and Reusable Drupal

You have heard of installation profiles and their promise of making your life easier. You know Drupal core ships with a Standard, Minimal, and Testing profile. Installation profiles can indeed make your life easier, especially if your life revolves around creating new Drupal sites.

If you have yet to take the plunge or are unsure of how to get started with installation profiles in Drupal,
this session is for you. No one enjoys downloading the common modules each time a new site has to be developed, setting up roles by hand, configuring the WYSIWYG configuration screen, or forgetting to enable some buried setting that only rears it’s head once a site has gone into production. Installation profiles are a valuable tool for streamlining Drupal site creation, from simple tweaks like setting user permissions and default behavior for new user accounts, to creating complex distributions that can be shared with the Drupal community.